Since Apple unveiled the new Touch ID fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5s a few days ago, the Internet has been awash in, frankly, horrible reporting about its ability and consequences. One thing repeated over and over again is that fingerprint readers are buggy, prone to breaking after 500 scans, and difficult to use because you have to place your finger on it just right.
And all that is truefor fingerprint readers back in 2003. That's when I first used a fingerprint reader that was built into a Windows laptop. It was horrible. Half the time, the fingerprint reader wouldn't recognize my finger. Some times it would, but only after I swiped it slowly and carefully--something that took much longer than quickly typing in a password.
But the thing is that
